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60 year old uncle needs help

My uncle is 60 years old and has health problems such as COPD and asthma. He has had a colonoscopy and two polyps have been taken but no cancer. He is rapidly loosing weight he is at 117lbs when he used to be a big man. You can count every rib and see every bone. He also has yellow on his upper cheek bones and yellow in the whites of his eyes. He is tired all the time and weak. Now he is having difficulty trying to swallow his food such as sandwitches. He eats like a bear but has no we